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...cultural phenomenon of television's mini-series from their beginnings ten years ago with The Blue Knight, a four-hour police drama. Since then, through Roots (1977), Holocaust (1978) and Shogun (1980), the magazine has noted the miniseries' steady escalation in length, sophistication and cost, culminating in ABC's The Winds of War, this week's cover story. "Everything about this show was big, including the number of people who worked on it," comments Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell of the 18-hr. TV epic that is based on Herman Wouk's 1971 bestseller...
...ABC goes all out on its epic The Winds...
Before it is through, boasts ABC, it will have reached virtually every American twelve years of age and older. It will have conveyed its message through direct mail, school study guides, a film documentary, TV and radio spots, and newspaper and magazine ads-well over a billion "impressions" in all. If these projections are accurate, then doubtless you already have the word: on Sunday, at 8 p.m. E.S.T., ABC will begin broadcasting the most expensive, most spectacular mini-series ever made, a $40 million, 18-hr, adaptation of Herman Wouk's 1971 novel, The Winds...
...Sunday night is the hook," says Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Motion Pictures. "That's family night, the highest viewing night of the week. By the end of those opening three hours, people will be involved with the characters and interested in what happens to them. After that, the hook gets deeper and deeper every night. Or so I hope...
...week by CBS on "deindustrialization," or the disappearance of jobs in heavy manufacturing. Reporters Ed Rabel, Bernard Goldberg and Linda Douglass tellingly depicted the rise in productivity and entrepreneurial spirit among Third World competitors of Western manufacturers. The series disputed, moreover, the optimistic observation of a similar report by ABC's Richard Threlkeld a few weeks ago. Describing the retraining of jobless former auto workers in California, Threlkeld said: "These labor pains we are feeling are the economy giving birth to the 21st century...